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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: i-node who wrote (380807)4/27/2008 6:38:18 PM
From: RetiredNow  Read Replies (1) of 1573922
 
yes, those are good points...and btw, I'm all for booking that debt, which would be in keeping with GAAP for government accounting. It would help everyone realize just how big our problems are as well.

However, military spending is a very big problem. In 2008, the best guess as to what we will spend on the military across all gov't agencies is estimated to be $1 trillion. That will be 1/3 of our national gov't spending. That is shameful considering that we're likely to have around an $800B budget deficit when you include the off-book emergency spending appropriations for the wars in the Middle East.

Disgusting and shameful. It's destroying our country, not making us safer.
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